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AUTHOaiTATIVH NEWS SEaVICE OF THE
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January 19, 1946
FEW MOBE m A??LICATI02iS; They're coming in only in driblets now, the total of FM applicants still short of 750. Since v/e published our last list a month ago, only 22 more applications have been filed with the FCC — and we report them as Supplement No. 14E herewith. Of these 22, eight are non-AM operators.
Taking these into account along with the several applications dismissed, as previously and currently reported, the total number to date is exactly 745. Noteworthy among those dismissed at request of applicant, is the pre-war file by A. A. Schechter for Providence; now news chief of Mutual, he returned from his Army PRO job with Gen. MacArthur and decided not to carry through his plan to start an FM in his home town.
Supplement 14E, added to 14A to 14D inclusive, gives you the complete list of FM applications on file up to Jan. 15.
CBS's imSH SHILLELSiGH: Shakeup in the CBS hierarchy (Vol. I, No. 2) does not m.ean any diminution of that network's campaign for color TV as against monochrome .
Nor should Paul Kesten's departure for an Arizona vacation of several months, on the eve of the first public showings of what CBS has in the Tvay of TV, be interpreted as a repudiation of his vigorous campaign for uhf TV. That's the word from inside CBS sources, designed to scotch manifold rumors nov; current.
Actually, Lt. Col. Adrian Murphy, returning from 3% years in the Army, some of the time spent on duty with Col. William Paley in the ETC, is taking up the same cudgels Kesten has wielded. His title of v.p. and general executive means he supplants Joe Ream in that post. Ream going to other duties. It also means he tops V.P. Larry Lowman, who continues on TV program operations but reports to Murphy, who actually is now the main TV policy and administrative man. Murphy was Kesten's assistant back in 1936, in 1939 became the network's first TV chief and was its executive director for TV v/hen he went into the Army in 1942.
SH0WB0W2i OH TWO-BAHD FM: Twenty years almost to the day (Jan. 21, 1926) when the
then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover instituted a test suit to determine whether his department had authority to halt Zenith's old Ali station WJAZ from "wave jLimping," dynamic Comdr. Gene McDonald, Zenith's president, again stormed the Washington bulv/arks. This time the veteran of MacMillan's Arctic expeditions, now a millionaire, dapper as ever, flanked by a retinue of experts that included Maj . Edv/in H. Armstrong, came to prove the case for widening the FM band to include 44-50 me. as the only way whereby the nev/ FM art can provide rural coverage .
His case and the case for the opposition (Vol. II, No. 2) was still being heard late Friday as we went to press, v;as to be concluded Saturday. To oldtimers there was a nostalgic chuckle in the fact that Zenith's case was being heard by a Commission that is the creature of the radio laws passed by Congress in 1927 and 1934 as a direct result of McDonald's court victory in the Hoover suit. Few, however.
Oopirrlght 1946 by Radio News Bureau